: I looked through and didn't see any posts about the new mag scans. so here I
: go.

: I'd heard about the unmasked grunts a while ago, but now seeing it brings a
: thought. Please excuse me if its already been proposed but since the
: grunts not weraing its mask and all that, could that mean that part of the
: game might take place on a grunt world, in their natural methane
: environment? Or simply that you can shoots their masks off now maybe. I
: dunno. Ideas?

If I had my Halo books with me, I'd find the reference, but...
I think it was in Halo: The Flood. There's a part where the Master Chief is sneaking around or something, I think when he's back on the Autumn, and he rips the mask off of a grunt and stuffs him in a storage locker to suffocate. I'm guessing you'll get to do this in the game, probably as a random result of a melee attack. That's the best reason I can think of for why they would have to create an in-game grunt model with the mouth exposed. Others in the thread have said something like this, but I didn't see anyone mention the books. So there. Go read something.